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Newsletter #150

August 21, 2017

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3 books featured in this issue

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Everything Is Flammable

by Gabrielle Bell

MADE-UP

For 20 years now, Bell has been making comics that create marvelous depths out of everyday moments, sometimes with low-key fantastical turns, like a woman who turns herself into a chair so she won't b... (Tom)

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Outside Over There

by Maurice Sendak

MADE-UP

As a customer recently pointed out to me, in his lovely new book on Maurice Sendak, There's a Mystery There, Jonathan Cott makes the case that Sendak's 1981 picture book, Outside Over There, is one of... (Tom)

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The Book of Emma Reyes

by Emma Reyes

TRUE

Reyes's book is a collection of letters, written to a friend over thirty years and published after her death, that recount the distant years of her childhood in Colombia. Reyes became a painter in Fra... (Tom)

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